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Work #770 · Mid

A Doll's House

Henrik Ibsen
1879 (first performed Copenhagen) · Norwegian
Modern social drama · Late-nineteenth-century Scandinavian theatre / modern realism

Ibsen's 1879 founding work of modern social drama — Nora slams the door

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Attribute A Doll's House (Mid)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency None
Observer · Moral Authority Reason
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

A Doll's House

The compressed time of moral discovery.

Space

A Doll's House

The bourgeois Norwegian household.

Matter

A Doll's House

The embodied Nora.

Observer

A Doll's House

Nora discovering her own personhood.

Energy

A Doll's House

Energies of moral awakening.

Information

A Doll's House

The bond, the letter, the slamming door.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

A Doll's House

Ibsen's A Doll's House: foundational for modern realist drama and feminist tradition; Nora's slamming door an iconic moment of modern emancipation.